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• Willmar church conned again | Last winter Rejoice Ministries hired a preacher who turned out to be a veteran con artist who swindled the church out of $10,000. Now the church claims his replacement took almost $3,500 (West Central Tribune, Minn.)
  
  
• Minn. church apparently conned—again | After its last pastor allegedly bilked them out of $10,000, leaders of Rejoice Ministries church thought they were being extra careful when they hired James Poole (Associated Press)
  
  
• Missionary who knifed mum and kids jailed | A church missionary who left "a scene of carnage" after trying to kill his girlfriend and her two children in a jealous rage has been jailed for 15 years (Manchester Evening News, England)
  
  
• Parishioner pleads not guilty in church trespass | Drop case, protesters urge archdiocese (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Death sentences hit 30-year low in U.S. | Activists see shift in juries' attitudes (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Slain missionary flown to Charlotte | Drew Rush was doing his life's work in the Latvian capital of Riga when he was murdered during an apparent robbery (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Britain say 'miracle baby' was a fraud | An infertile Nigerian couple who believed a self-styled preacher's claim that their child was miraculously conceived were really the victim of greedy international child traffickers, a British judge ruled Friday (Associated Press)
  
  

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Spirituality:

• Pilgrimages are what you make them | In my travels as a religion reporter, I've met many modern-day pilgrims (Mary A. Jacobs, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Seminary students forge spirit in wild | Backpacking for five days in West Virginia's Otter Creek Wilderness area allowed 12 students to learn about survival, themselves and their faith. (Mansfield News Journal, Oh.)
  
  
• Former preacher 'de-converts' to atheism | Don't talk to Dan Barker about God, Jesus or the Bible (Lawrence Journal-World, Kan.)
  
  

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More articles of interest:

• Reconciling faith and the field | Athletes observe Ramadan fasts despite fatigue (The Washington Post)
  
  
• U2: The catharsis in the cathedral | Tensions between intellect and passion, and between pragmatism and faith, drive the songs on "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (The New York Times)
  
  
• Diet takes some faith | There's more to the churchgoer's diet than meets the eye (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Report: China arrests leader of unofficial church as part of new crackdown | State security agents arrested a prominent member of the unofficial Chinese Protestant church as part of a renewed crackdown on religious activities outside Communist Party control, an overseas activist group reported Friday (Associated Press)
  
  

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